Ancient magnetic fossils reveal that animal navigation using Earth’s magnetic field may have evolved far earlier than ...

Twelve non-dinosaur rulers show Earth’s old power: armored fish, giant insects, sky titans, sea kings, and saber teeth across ...

Scientists discover 97-million-year-old magnetic fossils that reveal how ancient animals used Earth’s magnetic field as a ...

An analysis of the bones and teeth of ancient mammoths (Mammuthus) has identified some of the microorganisms that lived in the animals’ mouths and bodies more than one million years ago. The study, ...

An upside-down jellyfish drifts in a shallow lagoon, rhythmically contracting its translucent bell. By night that beat drops ...

Archaeologists working in the Southern Ural Mountains have uncovered an unexpected clue about how an ancient plague once moved across Eurasia. A tiny sheep tooth found at the Bronze Age site of Arkaim ...

Researchers from the Canadian Museum of Nature (CMN) have identified a new species of rhino that once roamed Canada's High Arctic 23 million years ago. The extinct rhinoceros, described in the journal ...

Sometimes we think we know everything on our planet, but researchers have found a new animal species in Spain. This animal ...

The curious minds at What If explore ancient animals scarier than dinosaurs that once existed, revealing predators, gigantism, and survival adaptations.

A rock face on the Monte Conero anticline holds many paddle-like footprint tracks packed together on one surface, likely made by sea turtles.

Long before the Black Death killed millions across Europe in the Middle Ages, an earlier, more elusive version of the plague spread across much of Eurasia. For years, scientists were unsure how the ...